With Photoshop CS6 currently avaiable as a free beta, Adobe has given us an exclusive sneak peek at what it's planning for the next version: Photoshop CS7, which is due for launch on April 1 2014. The biggest surprise is that Adobe is dropping the desktop version for a tablet-only release for Apple's Even-Newer-Than-New iPad and whatever Android tablets are still with us.

Adobe says that it's stripping back Photoshop CS7's feature set to focus on core creative tools, which it claims will help artists and photographers work more efficiently and concentrate on their work. Adobe's turning its back on Photoshop CS6's new dark interface and returning to a lighter texture accented in yellow and blue.

The toolset will include only a Pen tool with four widths, and Eraser of four strengths, a simple set of swatches (though more colours can be purchased separately), the ability to start again and a button for when you're finished. There will also be a simplified Text tool.

"I've spent a lot of time with the most popular creative iPhone app and it's changed the way I look at what we can achieve with our software," Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen told us. "I was spending so much time on it that it was beginning to take over my working day, but with our new strategy I can carry on as it's much-needed research, right?"

He added, "do you think John Warnock will be able to tell this is 'bromance'?"

So here's our exclusive look at the Photoshop CS7, helped out by a trio of London-based artists and designers we begged and cajoled until they agreed to help us.

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Me said: wow I knew this was fake since reading the tittle on a google search engine. It's obvious that a massive, powerful software won't be compatible with weak little tablets, and even if it was - it would be impractical to use. Even if they managed to make it usable on tablets, with the same features, they would severely limit their audience by reducing it to tablets.

VALIUM said: asshole author. ;)

Billy French said: Ha! I love jokes. Thanks!

james said: morong.

LaterMater said: Idiots

Guest said: "morong"

mark said: huh!

KP said: Reposting, hope I get a good amount of friends with this.

psdesignuk said: Fair enough, it's a joke. But, seriously, the anger and, more importantly, the grammar mistakes in the comments are shameful.

Anonymous said: APRIL FOOLS!!!

Alext said: Die!

Russell Williams said: You are a morong polluting the Web with bullshit. damn paint screenshots.

Chris McGrath said: your an idiot

Kylefpayne said: amzing i have it

Kylefpayne said: ahahahhaaaha

Jdhadwin said: LLOL L

Carl Lindberg said: i'll buy it as soon as it comes out, back to basics ;-)

Kim_il_sung said: Can it be that this article has gone unnoticed for 6 months and only been commented on the last couple of weeks?

Kim_il_sung said: But these comments all say 1 week ago and 2 weeks ago, and the date is April, but it's October. I am confused. April + 2 weeks = October? It'll be because you're all mac users and the evil in your computers is sucking time of the universe.

Mr Shop said: ha ha ha ha , fantastic

ThisIsFake said: This is obviously an April Fools' joke (look at the date!), the screenshots are from Draw Something.

Benzlebug08 said: If this is what it's going to be like, I'm NOT getting it!